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Tag: 03.25.08
What Is The Future When The Present Overtakes It So Quickly
Arthur C. Clarke’s passing “poses a challenge to the current generation of science-fiction writers: in a world where technology evolves so rapidly that the present already feels like the future, will a modern-day author ever inherit Mr. Clarke’s aura of prescience? Do any of his successors share his apparent talent for envisioning technological breakthroughs before they are realized?”
Brisbane Theatre Builds For Interactive Future
“Theatre needs to look to football and computer games to recapture the excitement of drama. The core of theatre has to be experiential, and that’s what has been lost.”
What A Theatre Director’s Departure Signifies About American Theatre
Last week, San Diego’s Old Globe announced that its co-artistic director Jerry Patch was leaving for the Manhattan Theatre Club. “The news also carried a faint yet detectable signal of what may be the most insidious problem facing American theater today — the subtle and not-so-subtle blurring of commercial and nonprofit realms. The issue boils down to procedures, values and, most important, who’s in control.”